Congo - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Congo was 73.74 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.97 in 1981 and a minimum value of 73.74 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 76.29
1961 77.34
1962 78.33
1963 79.26
1964 80.07
1965 80.78
1966 81.89
1967 82.81
1968 83.58
1969 84.27
1970 84.90
1971 85.89
1972 86.73
1973 87.44
1974 88.03
1975 88.50
1976 89.35
1977 90.03
1978 90.52
1979 90.80
1980 90.84
1981 90.97
1982 90.76
1983 90.30
1984 89.69
1985 88.99
1986 88.38
1987 87.72
1988 86.98
1989 86.10
1990 85.08
1991 84.14
1992 83.08
1993 81.96
1994 80.90
1995 79.92
1996 79.12
1997 78.39
1998 77.72
1999 77.09
2000 76.50
2001 76.26
2002 75.98
2003 75.70
2004 75.48
2005 75.36
2006 75.15
2007 75.02
2008 74.92
2009 74.78
2010 74.56
2011 75.24
2012 75.73
2013 76.05
2014 76.22
2015 76.26
2016 76.06
2017 75.69
2018 75.18
2019 74.52
2020 73.74

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Dependency ratios capture variations in the proportions of children, elderly people, and working-age people in the population that imply the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. But dependency ratios show only the age composition of a population, not economic dependency. Some children and elderly people are part of the labor force, and many working-age people are not. Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population